Advice

How to manage water resources? Is it just a matter of matching supplies to demands? Should water and its quality be recognised for its wider role in life? How to prepare public decisions on water, which are widely supported yet affordable? Questions without easy answers as interests, ideas and stakeholders diverge.

Kees Blok works on such questions and combines insights in technical aspects – and in socio-economic and institutional contexts – with experience in communication and participation.

Example 15

Can formalising water rights for all sectors using water help achieve reliable allocation of scarce water resources in Egypt?
Kees Blok advises the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation to complement its urgent measures to rationalise and curb water demand with steps to issue and uphold volumetric water rights.